A Tale Of Two NAS Devices And Their Makers

A recent failure of a router has been diagnosed as a NIC failure on the motherboard. I can install another NIC to solve the problem. Along the way, I considered converting the rackmount server to be a NAS device for the LAN. With one NIC that could work. Well, I found a couple of NAS devices with similar capability and I checked out their specs.

Hmmm… This requires some research. Why is a NAS with a paucity of specs from WD double the price from someone I’ve never heard of before? Even QNAP’s page on Wikipedia was deleted as blatant advertising. I guess human knowledge does not need to know its existence… Strangely, WD’s page survives…

Anyway, if I plugged Debian GNU/Linux into that router and used the single NIC, I could have total control over my NAS and skip problems like this. I’m not going to delete that statement even if someone thinks it’s blatant advertising. 😉 That special is attractive, though…

About Robert Pogson

I am a retired teacher in Canada. I taught in the subject areas where I have worked for almost forty years: maths, physics, chemistry and computers. I love hunting, fishing, picking berries and mushrooms, too.

My Mission

My observations and opinions about IT are based on 40 years of use in science and technology and lately, in education. I like IT that is fast, cost-effective and reliable. I do not care whether my solution is the same as yours. I like to think for myself.

My first use of GNU/Linux in 2001 was so remarkably better than what I had been using, I feel it is important work to share GNU/Linux with the world. I have been blessed by working in schools where students and school systems have benefited by good, modular software easily installed in most systems.

I have shown GNU/Linux to thousands of students and hundreds of teachers over the years and will continue in some way doing that until I die in spite of the opposition.